I just saw when I went to the Google Adsense Setup that the Referals is being retired as of late August. I started using referals just this week and I made some decent money - its kinda sad for me! How do you feel about referals being retired!
Referralls are gone? good! advertise a company website for free, in the hopes people buy something? imagine if TV worked that way, Coca cola would only pay only if the consumer went straight from watching TV to the supermarket to buy Cokes, regardless of the impressions they've engrained in the consumers mind.. yeahh right. good riddens.
I guess there are enough of us Webmansters who know about Adsense. And/Or Google doesnt want to pay out anymore.
Its the whole referals program thats being retired. Logic and common sense would dictate that would inlcude the firefox ones... but apprently common sense is a few pennies short.
I think this is a mistake. I have referred many people to using adsense and adwords. I was little upset when they stopped overing the $5 and $10 payouts for those referrals but now for them just to stop them I don't think is very smart.
Just got this email> Hello, Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals programme. We will be retiring the AdSense Referrals programme during the last week of August. After that time, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads. If you currently use referrals, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, we encourage that you take the following steps before the product is retired: * Remove all referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so that you can continue to effectively monetise your ad space. * Replace your referral ads with AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page, we recommend replacing referral ad units with standard AFC ad units. This will minimise the risk of decreased AdSense earnings when the Referrals programme is retired. * Run and save all referrals reports to your desktop: All Referrals reports will no longer be available at the end of October. We appreciate your patience during this transition. If you have additional questions, please visit http://www.google.com/adsense/suppor...py?topic=14882. Thank you for your support of AdSense Referrals. Yours sincerely, The Google AdSense Team Bugger.. I liked referrals Cheers James
I was one making about 90% of my money from referrals but after the changes they made I had to let it go
I didn't make that much from referrals after they made those changes. After the changes were made to the program, it was pretty much worthless anyway. It's kind of sad to see it go because I know there are people who made a lot from referrals and now that that feature is gone, some of those people will have to look to other sources for income. I'm still using AdSense for my ads though. That's a shame, though about the referral thing. I JUST got the email and came over to DP to see if anything had been posted about it yet.
Yep. Stopped using them a long time ago. It always mystified me that they weren't productive for my ventures. Anyone that ever signed up under my link never went on to make a dime. It ain't for everybody, as they say.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=902728 When I posted this I never knew how close I was to being right. Doesn't happen often..lol It was a complete bomb for 95% of the people that used it and retiring it is the only right thing to do. I was a miserable failure for Google and they know it. It ranks up there with the Youtube Ad units which also blow big chunks. Google is losing their touch lately